skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ive been using the VGA font since I started coding borland IDEs in DOS. I just cant find any other font that seems as easy to read. There is even a version of it with lots of unicode characters added.

http://www.inp.nsk.su/~bolkhov/files/fonts/univga/index.html

When I got a retina macbook the resolution meant each pixel of the font was 4 on the display instead of 1 so I tried and failed to find a substitute again. I ended up using fontforge to double the resolution of the font and smoothed it out by hand with some extra pixels. I like it even more now.
My twitter feed spewed no hatred about TS at me.
I am a regular user but mostly on mobile. Often I give up on links as it gets stuck loading t.co and I notice constantly.
the thing is with tools nobody knows about is, that google regularly kills them. i.e.: http://trends.google.com/websites?q= google trends for websites

this was the unbelievable useful tool to get competitive data (traffic, queries) about other websites. it was not perfect, the data was sometimes months late. but it was good enough to compare websites with each other.

now it's gone. probably it didn't fit into google strategy. probably someone at google decided that "we are not in the business of providing competitive intelligence data of websites" (i guess that, as the google adplanner was stripped of lots of website data in the same timeframe )

the same thing with the product mentioned above. it will be killed. maybe not this year, maybe not next year, but sure as hell sometime.
Huawei were also banned earlier this year from bidding for parts of Australia's National Broadband Network, following advice from Australia's secret service organisation (ASIO) who work closely with the Americans. I wish ASIO was just as concerned about my communications being monitored by the USA (or for that matter, themselves)...
Why Data Will Never Replace Thinking - Justin Fox
It's all fun and games until people get hurt: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/109ipi/no_faceboo... & http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/facebook_is_making_us_misera...
A link is not enough, you'd have to show causation. If not, you might as well be banning the sale of umbrellas because they are linked to rain.

That's the main weakness in the study, btw. It could well be that kids who are prone to violence are more attracted to violent games.
this will work if the tech is sufficiently innovative, and is difficult to implement, and is not at all obvious that such piece of tech is the solution to such a problem.

However, some of the patents i've seen being battled out in court is about the _shape_ of a phone. Rounded corners. Swipe, pinch to zoom, and bounce when reached the end of a list.

These things are not worthy of being patented, and none of them are non-obvious enough to be called innovative. it is at these patents that ruin the system.
Check the code : https://github.com/felixge/node-mysql

Note: it uses node_buffer.cc which is some C++ code in node. So it is not exactly pure Javascript.
DirectXTK October 2012 release
The Lua people are not like the Java people. The whole point of the luajit ffi is to make interfacing with C code really easy, without any more function call overhead than calling C to C. So it is the ideal language to interface with performing well written C code without losing the benefits.
it looks that they are rewritting some of the XNA features in C++11, e.g. SpriteFont, SpriteBatch, BasicEffect:

SpriteBatch, BasicEffect:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/archive/2012/03/02/spriteba...

Sprite Font:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/archive/2012/05/02/directxt...

Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/
In case, if you're not aware, there are ready-made crowdfunding platforms like Agriya
AFAIK imdb lets you create lists, you could create a list of movies you watched. I believe imdb has the biggest db out there so might be the best choice. What other features would you need?
Also, interestingly, Open Source would not work without copyright. That's right. The GPL, (to some extend) the Apache License, and many other licenses only work because of copyright, which grants the owner the right to license software to you under a license.

Open Source is bigger than copyleft software. Without copyright, BSD/MIT/etc. licensed software would thrive.

Also without copyright, closed source software would not generate the kind of money it does now, so there would be less incentive to invest in it vs. investing in open source software. One could say that Open Source gets a competitive advantage when all software can legally be copied for free.
Escape from message hell
Uclibc and dietlibc. Must recommend Musl for code readability and implementation quality.
Interesting paper, although the author disagrees with that interpretation pretty heavily. I suppose the issue isn't as clear cut as I thought.
Of course there are worthwhile works that don't have expensive production costs. I've never suggested otherwise, nor would I.

But huge numbers of people apparently value the works we do produce today that have those expensive production values, and in the case of works created for utility rather than entertainment, the usefulness of the work may drop off rapidly if it's not as well made.

Technology has changed the landscape, and unless you're willing to live in a police state with strict regulations on general purpose computing and communications technology, that genie isn't getting back in the bottle.

Technology has changed many landscapes, but just because we can do something, that doesn't mean we should. Most people recognise that certain acts are harmful to specific people or to society as a whole, and we legislate to make those acts illegal. We can certainly debate whether copying a knowledge work under various conditions is such an act, and if so, whether copyright is an appropriate response, but I don't think "This is the way the world is, deal with it" is a compelling argument. Anarchy would be very unpleasant for many members of society.
I couldn't agree more. I looked a short while ago for a firefox extension which just looks for a url in the body of an anchor link, then alerts you if the htef attribute is different. Couldn't find one or be stuffed writting one, but was bemused about the relative lack of info on the topic.

My last straw using Google Chrome, was when I noticed that the browsers "could not load webpage" (e.g. When you don't have an Internet connection) redirects through Google when I click the "try reloading the page". I dunno if they still do it, but that was crossing the line for me.
I pretty much agree with you, though it certainly depends on the context (I'm more likely to not be bothered by it in a post on a mailing list). But for a technical writeup? You want to be treated like a professional, write like one.
That's why Luajit also has an unsafe C compatible representation too, the ffi.
The world wide web in black and white
Entrümpelung Wien
Entrümpelung , Entrümpelung wien

Entrümpelung Wien , ATH-Trans Entrümplungen Wien – Wir sind Ihr richtiger Ansprechpartner in Sachen Entrümplungen aller Art!
Zuverlässig, schnell, gründlich und auf Wunsch BESENREIN, das sind Stärken die unser Entrümplungsunternehmen ausmachen.

Ebenfalls können wir Ihnen in eiligen Angelegenheiten weiterhelfen wie zB schwierige Objekte wie Sammler Wohnungen, Messiewohnungen, vermüllte Wohnung sowie Mietnomaden sind ebenfalls kein Problem für unser Entrümplungsunternehmen
Doesn't one drive the other?
> As an ignorant non-scientist, I assumed it'd be better for someone else to replicate the studies, to avoid the same biases; wouldn't it?

Not at all ignorant. It is a given that a replication should be carried out by a disinterested party, one neither an advocate of, nor critical of, the original work.
modern JS performance is perfectly adequate even for 3D games and the like

You can certainly write a 3d engine in JS, and it won't be laughably slow, but the idea that you're going to see any AAA games in the next 5 years written with any more JS than the usual Scaleform is extremely unlikely.
What I meant was that we care about uptime, and we're working on improving that.
Unless they're missing some other factor that drives both aggression and the gameplay choices -- a factor other than the "previous levels of aggression" they mention as being a tested control.

Perhaps, some other childhood stressor or failure in coping mechanisms? And if this other factor tends to trigger first, escapism into violent gameplaying, but then later (if unaddressed), actual aggression, I think they could see the "steeper increases in adolescents' trajectory of aggressive behavior" that's reported, even though the gameplaying is just a waypoint or signal rather than cause.

(Under this hypothesis, it's possible the violent gameplaying aggravates the underlying issue, if it delays or prevents other remedies, but it's also possible the gameplaying serves to soften the aggression. You can't really tell from their sequenced relations analysis... you'd want some stronger random-like control on the amount of violent gameplaying.)
If you recall the interview mark zuckerberg did at techcrunch he described how many more people use fb mobile than the app, but clearly apps have value. News apps deliver much the same media as fb, but they chose native for a reason. Until the mobile web offers the same feature set and comparable performance to native apps, they will always have a place.

This is coming from a fan of phone gap and web apps.
That ip example you took is an extreme case
argument format. Thats the one used for example
to prove that poker is a game of skill or chance
where ppl say it is not a game of chance since you can play to lose.

But point on names well taken.
How does this differ from tools like puppet or mcollective, which are commonly deployed in operational environments today, and almost necessary for day-to-day operations?
Screw these negative guys, this is amazing. Great work! :-)
I'm not sure what either of you are attempting to demonstrate with these excerpts.

I read the fact that he didn't patent the 555 with some disappointment. He had a successful career, good; and yet, he deserved to capture some of the marginal product of his labor, not simply to go on to be promoted super-Executive-Senior-Engineer-Level-XII. In this case, he did later start and sell a company after he left Signetics, and his reputation from the 555 timer surely helped him to success in that.

But to my mind not patenting the design clearly made it harder for him to partake in the direct rewards he deserved for creating such a useful circuit.
You can email Paul McDonald to get a free voucher to try this out (see http://www.quora.com/Google/What-is-it-like-to-use-Google-Co...)

I used it to ask how much people were willing to pay to collect video customer reviews and a lot of the responses were 11111111, 1000000 or 12345 dollars per month though.
That hypothesis, that violent kids are drawn to violent video games, was the hypothesis that the study was testing against! Read the abstract.
Patents're most useful to big companies. They are their weapons at war. For startups, patents are more like commodities to be selected!
What a mess, i didn't even read to the end, just forget this guy and don't refund him anything. You already had way too much trouble with him.

P.S. i did read through the end and i am sure this guy has no 'cruel plan' to lure you to work for free. He's just an impatient idiot who has no idea what he in fact needs.
Hence, in the current system, there is no incentive for alternative models to really develop

I don't think that's necessarily true. For example, if, as self-confessed pirates have frequently argued on sites like Slashdot, the advertising side-effect of sharing works freely ultimately generates more revenue for the creator than copyright-controlled distribution, then the logical move even with copyright is to put those works into the public domain and invite donations to support the creator. However, that risks the alternative possibility that the "advertising benefit" agument really is just another pyramid scheme, and without enough law-abiding (with copyright)/donation-giving (without copyright) people at the end of it to support everyone else, it's just rationalising freeloading.

Also, your argument does not take into account the fact that without copyright derivative works would be utilized to a much fuller extent.

There are definitely valid arguments against copyright based on greater use of derivative works. The problem is that it is also possible that derivative works would become dominant if it were easy to make them and much harder to create something original, with little incentive to do the latter.
Studies[1] have also shown that competitiveness of the game is a better predictor of aggression, rather than violence. This study does nothing to control for that, as far as I can see. Its certainly a fact that most violent games are also quite competitive.

> The study in the article you link to shows that violence decreases in the short term when a violent block buster is released, because violent individuals are busy playing.

That's right, but I fail to see how that's a flaw in the study?

[1]: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/201...
I get weird clipping on the right fourth of the various card symbols.
Chrome 18 on nexus 7.
Actually, that's what was passing for 3G at the time (it's not always rock-solid, and one doesn't have private towers). It doesn't take a lot of stuttering to make a site like that fail. Beauty and responsiveness are not mutually exclusive, and none of the content I saw warranted a player -- garden-variety HTML and CSS would have done as well.
Isabel Marant Sneakers Bekket High-top Suede Blanc&Noir [Ibl37] - &euro;195.58
Isabel Marant Sneakers Bekket High-top Suede Blanc&Noir [Ibl37], Isabel Marant Bottes, Isabel Marant Sandales, Isabel Marant Sneakers
What about MercadoPago?

http://www.mercadolibre.com.ec/jm/mercadopago
Facebook won't be killed by another product, but by the growing data-mining and exploitation of its data (probably not even by Facebook itself). If you post often enough, Facebook (and/or twitter and g+) provides a map of all your activities, affiliations and even aspirations in great detail (often with geolocated photos, and cross-linked posts by people you have confirmed as friends), which is a treasure trove of information for companies which want to find out more about you.

Facebook has privacy controls to pretend that they're hiding your data, but in the words of its founder, those who trust in them are 'dumb fks' - they are there to encourage more sharing, not less, and are constantly undermined by the company itself.

That data has not been exploited properly at all yet, but when the great data-mining scandal of 2021 hits, and people are regularly being denied services (insurance,travel,benefits,jobs) because of risky activities in their youth, or confronted with just how much anyone can find out about the last 30 years of their life with a trivial search, there will probably be a swing back to much tighter personal control of information, treatment of all data posted to any service as already in the public record, and a general acceptance that maybe we shared too much. Perhaps our concept of privacy will shift, but I doubt it will extend to letting corporations and governments mine the highlights and interstices of our life for every salient fact, which is where we are headed if people continue to use Facebook or similar services their entire life.

One thing I do think might change gradually is that we'll stop believing that pseudonyms on a forum or privacy controls on a sharing website can protect your identity in any meaningful way, and start accepting that anything posted anywhere can and will be traced back to us.
I've cracked it: Steve Jobs last laugh at the TV industry, one year on
I am also getting 502 error
There is a very good reason peer to peer social networks can't work nowadays (not even considering diaspora quality).

It's not about internet overlords. It's not about ad industry pressure. It's not about governments pressure.

It's about internet access providers. Most of them provide unbalanced bandwidth : you have high speed download and low speed upload.

Which user would want his peers to watch a video streaming at a few hundreds kb/sec ? P2P social networks can only fail until we have decent upload bandwith.

Granted, if it's really P2P, people you authorize seeing it can then participate in its sharing, but it still is not acceptable on very first minutes after posting : you may have something like 10 people trying to download your content from your ridiculous upload speed, which, btw, can greatly affect your browsing experience meanwhile.
A non-causal association would have to be induced by a confounding factor that first causes teens to play violent video games then to behave aggressively, but never in the other order.

Yes, but not "never in the other order": just more often/strongly in the games-first order.

And I don't find such confounding factors hard to think up for 9th-12th graders: difficult family life; social problems with peers; substance abuse; academic performance pressures; etc.

If a teen were to react to any of these, first, by escaping into violent video games (as a relatively easy temporary mood boost), but then second, with measurable aggression, it would fit the sequential relation seen. But we wouldn't know with any sort of confidence if the violent-gameplaying interim behavior worsened or lessened the eventual aggression.
The point everyone seems to miss is that violent media does not necessary cause violent behaviour in individuals but instils the idea that conflict can only be resolved through violence, which when trying to rally public support for war is rather useful to the powers that be.
This looks more like 4chan to me.
Well, when reading the text, the reference to Dale Carnegie's work - as well as the author's reflections on that - constitute the pivotal point of the chapter "Why criticism is bad". Without that, what is left except feelings and such?

He even repeats a claim that 99% of people one criticizes "will not see themselves to blame anyway."

That is not how we reached our modern science and academia.

Furthermore, he advises: "It is amazing how often it is you end up in a chair across from someone at a table interviewing you for a job you really need who happens to have worked on an open source project you publically condemned. Whoops."

If one's criticism is well-argued, this may in fact be the tipping point that secures the job. If the criticism was a one-liner on twitter, it may spark a dialogue that generates mutual respect.

My issue with the post is that it throws the baby - ugly or not - out with the bath water.
Is this a conspiracy of the color blind to level the playing field?
I've never written anything non-trival in C and even that was ages ago so I didn't hope to be able judge the niceties of different implementations but I can't even tell what the algorithm is in that one.
High PPI is the literal description of the phenomena referred to by the OP. Its not a buzzword or a trademark, its a technical specification.
A question for you and anyone else:

In terms of making a company attractive to investors, is a block of resources better spent in obtaining a patent or advancing product development? Is the answer different between a start-up and not a start-up?

I'm genuinely interested in the answer, as it strikes me that the answer is not clear cut.
Perhaps it could, but clearly we produce vastly more new works under copyright than we ever did when we relied on patronage. That doesn't necessarily demonstrate a causal effect, but again, I come back to the argument that nothing today is stopping wealthy patrons from funding new projects, yet hardly anyone is. I don't know why we'd assume lots of multimillionaire philanthropists would, either individually or with a handful of similarly rich friends, suddenly start personally paying for things like say the Lord of the Rings films, just because copyright was abolished. Even if they did, it would take lots of very rich people giving up a lot of their wealth to get anywhere near funding just what today's movie industry costs, never mind literature, music, software, and the rest.
Wasn't some famous gun legislation named after that family?
And a followup question: does wife Carol have a sister?
Those seem to both use basically the same algo as the glibc one, all though a little more compactly written.
The Pi is a veritable supercomputer when compared to, say, the Sinclair ZX81 - A handful of kilobytes of RAM max, ~3MHz Z80 chip...

There is a ZX81-based web server public on the web, I won't link it here for obvious reasons. (Search for "Siggis ZX81 web server" if you really wish to see it.)
The Webstock ’13 website
Still, one would like to test for the opposite (stopping video games -> less aggressive behaviour).

I remember as a kid we played war games outdoors, i think kids have always done that in some ways.
It seems like the article is a translation, the irony might be something the original author may not have realized
thank god for whoever had the foresight to sit Richard Feynman down and just have him talk about everything
Perhaps facebook's reluctance to roll out a proper people search is a reluctance to scaring it's user base.
Obviously this was an epic fail deserving of your original derision, but I can't help but be struck by the irony in your complaint of ad-hominem after what you wrote.
I'm not sure you can separate out opinions easily from actions/decisions to spend money, and I don't find the idea of a rational market or a rational crowd at all persuasive. I'd say how they spend their money/resources has always been intimately connected with their opinions and (crucially) how they shared them. A few examples of the irrationality of crowds (NB I'm not saying they're always irrational, just that they're rarely rational/wise):

The expedition to Sicily by Athens in 413 BC
The run up in the Facebook stock price on IPO day
Widespread investments in failsafe CDOs pre the crash of 2008

If crowds have any wisdom, it dissipates pretty quickly when they gather and start sharing opinions.
It could be a general problem. For collecting responses from high-income individuals the method faces the double-whammy of: (1) smaller number of potential respondents; (2) respondents are least willing to spend their time on such surveys (or the sites the survey-wall blocks).
Those excerpts demonstrate that the 555 timer became significant in part because it was not patented. You could even argue that Camenzind wouldn't have been eulogized for his invention of the 555 timer if it wasn't for its success due to widespread copying.
You still have some lorem ipsum text on the bottom of your front page.
As far as conspiracies go, it's not very good: a browser extension that you are perfectly free to not install.
On a related note, an extension that modifies colors to be colorblind friendly may actually be useful.
Is Poker A Game of Skill or Chance?
However, if someone places a shortened url via tent you'd still not be able to click the link if the shorten-service is down.
>> "Jane goes to a party but doesn't want anyone who wasn't there to know. Jane's friends post pictures of her at said party. Now everyone who checks Facebook before Jane sees that she's been tagged in these pictures. Until now, Jane's never really considered that she should screen tags for approval first."

There are privacy settings for this (which I use). You turn on an option that all tags (photos and posts) have to be approved by you before they appear on your timeline (and thus visible to your friends).